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We lie to ourselves in order that we may still have the excuse of ignorance, the alibi of stupidity and incomprehension, possessing which we can continue with a good conscience to commit and tolerate the most monstrous crimes.
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We lift ourselves by our thought. We climb upon our vision of ourselves. If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself. Hold the ideal of yourself as you long to be, always everywhere.
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We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks, if we agree with him.
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We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured.
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We live at a moment when our relationships to each other, and to all other beings with whom we share this planet, are up for grabs.
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We live between two worlds; we soar in the atmosphere; we creep upon the soil; we have the aspirations of creators and the propensities of quadrupeds. There can be but one explanation of this fact. We are passing from the animal into a higher form, and the drama of this planet is in its second act.
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We live by hope; and by desire: we see by the glad light; and breathe the sweet air of futurity; and so we live, or else we have no live.
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We live by our imagination, our admiration s, and our sentiments.
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We live for books. A sweet mission in this world dominated by disorder and decay.
Source: The Name of the Rose (2014) 120 -
We live in a land like no other - a land of freedom and opportunity unparalleled on the face of the globe.
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We live in a period in which political disagreements are routinely handed over to the courts. Whenever you think that the president is wrong, you might well cry out that he has violated the Constitution - and ask federal judges to rule accordingly.
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We live in a society absolutely dependent on science and technology and yet have cleverly arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. That's a clear prescription for disaster.
Source: with Anne Kalosh (October 1994), Bringing Science Down to Earth, Hemispheres -
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
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We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
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We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them.
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We live in a world that has walls. And those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Who's gonna do it? You?... You can't handle it. Because deep down, in places you don't talk about, you want me on that wall. You need me there. We use words like honor, code, loyalty. We use these words as a backbone to a life spent defending something. You use them as a punchline. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the
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We live in a world which is full of misery and ignorance, and the plain duty of each and all of us is to try to make the little corner he can influence somewhat less miserable and somewhat less ignorant than it was before he entered it.
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We live in an age of universal investigation, and of exploration of the sources of all movements.
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We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions; and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.
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We live in New York. To be able to have a steady job and take your kids to school, and be around and work hard, is the perfect life.
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